Below, any school with at least three faculty on these lists are ranked by the percentage of tenured faculty (based on the Sisk count) who appeared in some "most cited" list (each faculty member is counted but once, even if they appeared on more than one list).

Rank

School

Tenured Faculty in Sisk study

# of Highly-Cited

Faculty

% faculty highly-cited

1

University of Chicago

29

14

48%

Yale University

46

22

48%

3

Harvard University

82

30

37%

4

University of California, Berkeley

53

18

34%

5

New York University

82

26

32%

6

Columbia University

73

22

30%

7

Stanford University

49

14

29%

8

University of Pennsylvania

43

11

26%

9

Duke University

40

10

25%

University of California, Irvine

24

6

25%

Vanderbilt University

32

8

25%

12

University of California, Los Angeles

54

13

24%

13

Cornell University

35

8

23%

14

Northwestern University

34

6

18%

15

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

47

8

17%

University of Minnesota

46

8

17%

17

George Washington University

66

9

14%

Georgetown University

81

11

14%

19

Case Western Reserve University

23

3

13%

George Mason University

31

4

13%

21

University of California, Hastings

38

4

11%

University of Southern California

28

3

11%

University of Texas, Austin

65

7

11%

University of Virginia

66

7

11%

Wake Forest University

28

3

11%

26

Brooklyn Law School

33

3

9%

27

Boston University

36

3

8%

Fordham University

53

4

8%

Ohio State University

36

3

8%

University of San Diego

37

3

8%

Other schools with at least two tenured faculty on the most-cited lists were: American University; University of Hawaii; University of California, Davis; Arizona State University; University of Arizona; Emory University; University of Illinois; Washington University, St. Louis; Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University; Indiana University/Bloomington; Temple University; University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill.